Search Again: Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, November 4, 2004 Time: 10:20:32 am At 11:09 AM +0200 11/4/04, Kaj Hjorth wrote: >Hello list, >this has certainly been addressed before >so excuse a dumb question. > >What do we benefit from updating to 9.3.0 BIND 9.2.x doesn't have a reliable way to disable IPv6 support in the resolver routine. This causes a problem with certain BSD-based operating systems, such as Mac OS X, whose IPv6 support has some sort of problem. When named version 9.2.x tries to contact another server whose hostname has an AAAA record, in addition to an A record, the connection fails only after several seconds, long enough that most web browsers time out. For most of the Internet, IPv6 isn't yet working, so this connection attempt will pretty much always fail. Ideally, it should fail immediately. BIND 9.3.0 has an undocumented "-4" command line option that can disable IPv6 support at runtime. >and where can one see the Bind version currently in use? Use this shell command: /usr/sbin/named -v If your named is not in /usr/sbin, it's probably in /usr/local/sbin. Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy Customer Service and Sales Engineer

Messages In This Thread: Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Kaj Hjorth on Nov 4, 2004 at 1:10:24 am Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 10:20:32 am Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by John May on Nov 4, 2004 at 10:42:46 am Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 12:13:59 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by John May on Nov 4, 2004 at 3:37:29 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 3:58:05 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by John May on Nov 4, 2004 at 7:26:34 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 7:54:38 pm